Lucas Arts Shake Up & Today's Rumor

Kotaku scored an interview with a now-former employee of Lucas Arts. Citing a huge company shake up, said informant also started THE RUMOR OF THE DAY! Think Bioware + Knights of the Old Republic + MMO and you'll want to read on.

The ex-employee, not normally the most reliable news source (though always interesting!), spilled the beans on a number of projects:

Most interesting, however, is the information they provide on how the layoffs leave the company severely short-staffed as they approach a packed development schedule, one which it appears may be increasingly outsourced. Some of the titles they report Lucasarts apparently have in this stacked pipeline, whether as publisher or developer, include:

• KOTOR 3 (They say it's an MMO: most likely a joint project between Lucasarts and BioWare)
• Battlefront 3
• "The Official Indiana Jones" game (probably this one)
• "another LEGO game based on the Indy universe"
• "a lightsaber game for the wii (sorry, no lightsaber peripherals)"

Obviously, most of these things will remain uncorroborated by Lucas Arts or any other involved party. Keep in mind that sour grapes aren't always the best news sources. Still, it's interesting...

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